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Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: blewyn on March 04, 2003, 08:38:35 am

Having just installed latest 43.00 NVidia Geforce drivers, now have garbled text on all briefings etc.  Any ideas how to prevent this ?

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: Hudzy on March 04, 2003, 09:48:56 am

Is it a GeForce 4?

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: blewyn on March 05, 2003, 09:20:01 am

Yes, it's a Creative Ti4400.

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: Hudzy on March 05, 2003, 12:46:54 pm

Well, I'm no expert on the matter, but lurking about here somewhere is a GeForce 4 fix that got rid of garbled text problems if I remember right.

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: aldo_14 on March 06, 2003, 03:28:45 pm

RandomTiger fixed it.  Download the latest version of the sourcecode, and that'll fix it.  (I think you need the command line option -geforce4fix or something)

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: Skeksis on July 30, 2003, 08:37:43 am

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Originally posted by aldo_14
RandomTiger fixed it.  Download the latest version of the sourcecode, and that'll fix it.  (I think you need the command line option -geforce4fix or something)

Greetings.

I am in the same situation and am hoping to fix this but being new to this forum I am not sure what to do with teh source code when I download it.  Any pointers greatly appreciated.  :)

Skeksis

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: Taristin on July 30, 2003, 08:48:42 am

Don't DL the source, Dl the modified Exe's and install them (copy them) to you're FS2 directory. Play them as usual.


Oh yeah, And welcome to the HLPBB... *calls for someone to Beam him*

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: Skeksis on July 30, 2003, 08:57:14 am

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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Don't DL the source, Dl the modified Exe's and install them (copy them) to you're FS2 directory. Play them as usual.

I hate to sound dim but:

which Exe's do I look for and where do I find them?


Oh yeah, And welcome to the HLPBB... *calls for someone to Beam him* [/B][/quote]

Thanks.  :)

Skeksis

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: Anaz on July 30, 2003, 09:07:02 am

the link to the latest (and hopefully stable...) build can be found in Phreak's signature.

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: redmenace on July 30, 2003, 09:37:39 am

here is a link to phreaks newest public build.
http://www.swooh.com/peon/phreak/fs2_open_r.zip (http://www.swooh.com/peon/phreak/fs2_open_r.zip)
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Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: karajorma on July 30, 2003, 09:57:14 am

While I agree that FS2_open is wonderful and definately worth getting, there is a much easier (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/technical.html) solution to the problem of garbled text.

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: diamondgeezer on July 30, 2003, 10:46:22 am

Perhaps, but Phreak's build is the **** anyway - no clipping!

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: Anaz on July 30, 2003, 11:00:33 am

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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Perhaps, but Phreak's build is the **** anyway - no clipping!

only if you use OGL...

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: diamondgeezer on July 30, 2003, 11:06:57 am

I do. Because there's no clipping. And that's a good thing.

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: Taristin on July 30, 2003, 11:44:32 am

I use OGL because Phreaks launcher says DX is not implemented. Either 5 or 8 :lol:

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: phreak on July 30, 2003, 12:44:00 pm

:wtf:

works for me

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: diamondgeezer on July 30, 2003, 01:03:34 pm

You sure you've set it to use FS Open? Mine was set to launch FS2 by default [:wtf:]

Title: Nvidia 43.00 Garbled Text ?
Post by: Taristin on July 30, 2003, 01:32:27 pm

I'll try again...

Title: the answer is not in a fix...
Post by: KnossosS on July 31, 2003, 04:48:12 am

just turn off your anti aliasing and try restaring the game....

Title: Re: the answer is not in a fix...
Post by: karajorma on July 31, 2003, 08:28:02 am

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Originally posted by KnossosS
just turn off your anti aliasing and try restaring the game....

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Originally posted by karajorma
While I agree that FS2_open is wonderful and definately worth getting, there is a much easier (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/technical.html) solution to the problem of garbled text.

This is better. Why should you lose antialiasing in everything else just for one problem game?